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HEATING AND VENTILATING DEVICE FOR BUILDINGS. I No. 300,075. PatentedJ1ine'10, 1884.

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\ ldNrrnn STATES AMANDA M. HICKS, OF CLINTON, AND ALONZO DISHMAN, OFPADUCAH, KY.

ArnNr HEATING AND VENTILATING DEVICE FOR BUILDINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 300,075, dated June 10,1884.

fApplication filed July 16, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, AMANDA. M. Hroxs,

of Clinton, Hickman county, State of Kentucky, and ALONZO DISHMAN, ofPaducah, McGracken county,'Kentucky, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Heating and Ventilating Devices for Buildings, of whichthe following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The'invention consists in certain novel combinations offresh-air-supplypipes with the chimney or flue of a building, also witha stove-grate or fire-place in one of the lower rooms, and with drumsarranged in the upper rooms of the building, substantially as hereindescribed, and whereby the desired results are obtained in a much moreperfect and simple manner than has heretofore been done.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of thisspecification.

The figure represents a sectional elevation of a building in part withmy improved heating and ventilating apparatus applied.

In the drawing, A B 0 represent the lower and certain of the upperfloors of a building, each of which is designed to be heated andventilated, as may also an additional number of upper floors, byextension of the apparatus for the purpose. D is an ordinary chimney. Eis a stove, which may be of ordinary construction, adapted to burneither coal or wood, This stove, which is arranged on the lower floor,A, has its drum connected at top by a pipe, b, with a drum, G, on thesecond floor, B, or by a suitable partition in the chimney D. The drumsF and G may be connected with each other by branch pipes b b and theflue or chimney D, it only being necessary that the top of one drumshould be connected with the lower end of the drum above it. Thisarrangement may be continued for a succession of drums arranged on thedifferent floors above; The drum G, however, will here be referred to asthe upper final one. This drum is connected at its top by anescape-pipe, c, with the chimney D. Each drum is fitted withafresh-air-supply pipe, H, opening through the top of the drum, andarranged to project down within it and out at right angles,orthereabout, through it and through the outer wall, (I, of the building,to supply air from the exterior thereof.

The operation of the apparatus is as follows: A fire being built in thestove E, the gaseous products of combustion I pass up through the drum Fand pipe I), or by branches 1) Z and chimney D, into the drum G, andfrom thence by the escape-pipe 0 into the chimney and out to theexternal air. As soon as the drums become heated an upward current isestablished in the air-pipes H, and warm pure air is delivered fromthese pipes into the rooms with which they communicate. In this way afourth or fifth story room could be well heated and ventilated, onlyusing the products of combustion from a single fire below.

This heating and ventilating apparatus has the following advantages overother devices for accomplishing like results. It is devoid of allcomplication, being exceedingly simple, does not necessitate anyparticular construction of the chimney or flue, and may be applied tothe chimney of any stove or fire-place. It is cheap, may be used inconnection with a stove of ordinary construction, introduces pure air,thus becoming a ventilator as well as a heater, and utilizes the heat inany desired number of rooms one above the other. Furthermore, the pipeswhich are used to supply the air to be introduced do not pass downthrough the floor and out through the sill, or draw their supply from ornear the sur face of the ground, but from a point or line on a levelwith the drum on each floor, and each floor is both warmed andventilated by the admission of pure warm air, subject to the control ofa single heater.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- The combination of the stove E, with its innerends to the rooms containing the drums, drum F on the lower floor, A, ofa building, essentially as shown and described, and for one or moreupper drums, G, on the .floor or the purposes set forth. floors abovepipes or ducts connecting the L 5 upper portion of each under drum withthe AMANDA HICKS lower portion of the drum on the next floor above it,the escape-pipe c for the gaseous pro- JACOB XVHITIJ, ducts ofcombustion, the chimney D of the \V. G. WINTER. building, and theindependent airsupply ALONZO DISHMAN.

IO pipes H, arranged one above the other within \Vitnesses:

the drums and through the chimney to the ex- \V. D. GREEN,

Vitnesses:

ternal atmosphere, and open at their upper or 1 O. DISHMAN.

